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Impromptu 4.0 is More Eventful

The avid Impromptu enthusiast will be much pleased with the advancement of using events. Not only does 4.0 bring more events, it also brings better events. First and foremost I must point out there is a change to the state’s submit parameters. The first parameter is now an jQuery.Event, followed by the original 3 parameters [...]

New Impromptu Tour Feature

This is HOT! You have a new website, which is a bit complex. You’re afraid your users don’t understand where all the features and functionality is located. What do you do? You give them a quick tour of the site! Impromptu can now position itself per “state”. If you’re unfamiliar with states check out the [...]

Finally, UberUploadCropper gets a much needed update. First off, flash is gone. Now you can upload and crop with just javascript and your serverside language of choice. What is UberUploadCropper? It is a jQuery plugin which pulls together jCrop, Impromptu, and FileUploader plugins into one uniform unit to upload and crop images. The latest version [...]

If you recently downloaded Impromptu 3.2, you may want to grab it again. A small bug was fixed. I didn’t find it worth while to create a new version, it was a line of code. On top of that the bug was merely a visual detail, and not critical. Long story short the overlay always [...]

jQuery Impromptu has seen a little attention lately, mostly dealing with some mobile improvements. While it did work before on most decent devices, iPad and company politely decided not to enable the position:fixed css property. Of course the reasoning behind this is logical. If a large element is “position: fixed” on a mobile window, the [...]